I agree that the site does need better links to software and related
projects. I've just had a look at the site to remind myself, and it is very
difficult to find things (as I recall I previously used to look at the
listing of the additional software on the distribution CD if I wanted to
know what else was out there).
Perhaps 3 sections:
Interfaces/APIs (ODBC, JDBC etc)
Tools (pgAdmin, pgBash etc.)
Application Software
The third section is one I would be interested in. My staff and I are
writing software for PostgreSQL that maybe of use to others, and I'm sure
others must be doing the same (either commercial or open source - in fact if
any has any financial ledgers...). I appreciate that the User Gallery is
(intended as) a listing of what PostgreSQL is being used for/with, but
perhaps a more moderated list of what people can actually download or buy
would attract more potential users.
Regards,
Dave.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Byron Nikolaidis [mailto:byron(dot)nikolaidis(at)home(dot)com]
> Sent: 12 November 1999 01:03
> To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Cc: The Hermit Hacker; Thomas Lockhart; Peter Mount; Dave Page
> Subject: THE Postgres WEB SITE
>
>
>
> Is it just me, or is it very difficult to find things on the Postgres
> web site??
>
> For example, I would like to download Pgaccess, or PgAdmin,
> or the JDBC
> driver, yet there are no links that I can find to these things on the
> web site?
>
> If a person needs the odbc or jdbc driver, or *ANY* interface to the
> Postgres database, one would think he should be able to find it (or
> links to it) from the main Postgres site, right?
>
> Why put people through the aggravation of trying to hunt down drivers
> and so forth? We do want to attract users don't we?
>
> I get at least 3 or 4 emails a day asking where the odbc driver is???
> Usually it reads something like this one that I just got:
>
> "Where can I get the latest Postgres ODBC client for windows?
> looked on
> the
> website and only found linux binaries and source."
>
> What's up with that?
>
> Byron
>